Atheists express their rage against God although in their view he does not exist.
Anger
Katherine Walden
If you’ve ever read more than a few Psalms, you’ll quickly learn It’s okay to have an occasional meltdown. But choose the proper venue to have it. Go to your prayer closet, in the loving presence of your Heavenly Father who will carry you through and give you the grace to move forward.
Ed Stetzer
April 14, 2020
Tribalism conforms to the pattern of this world and does not fight for the basic truth that should unite all Christians. …secondary issues have conflated the spiritual and the natural in a way that weakens our witness and embroils us in deep conflict that distracts from and distorts the gospel of Jesus. Unflinching devotion to a tribe not only pushes us to fight against issues that are not connected to the gospel and don’t advance the mission of God, but it also affects how we view others who disagree with us. They become opponents we have to beat rather than lost people made in the image of God whom we are to love and extend God’s grace to. Our true fight is not against those who are hurting in the world; it is against the sinful and demonic forces of darkness.
(Christians in the Age of Outrage)
Francis de Sales
December 20, 2019
Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no longer committing faults in speech, he has surely reached perfection, as was said by the Holy Spirit. The worst defect in talking is talking too much. Hence, in speech be brief and virtuous, brief and gentle, brief and simple, brief and charitable, brief and amiable.
Lisa Bevere
We do not walk away from others to punish them; we turn away so the embers of anger can cool and reason can again rule our hearts.
C. S. Lewis
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Richard J. Foster
Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God’s great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it.
Katherine Walden
Don’t get caught up in pointless social media debates and arguments with those who prove themselves to be irrational or who have obviously not done their own homework. You do yourself a great disservice and you do nothing to convince those who refuse to listen to a rational response. Step away and don’t get sucked into their vortex of dysfunction.
John of Kronstadt
A man who is wrathful with us is a sick man; we must apply a plaster to his heart – love; we must treat him kindly, speak to him gently, lovingly. And if there is not deeply-rooted malice against us within him, but only a temporary fit of anger, you will see how his heart, or his malice, will melt away through your kindness and love – how good will conquer evil. A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.